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This Fiscal, Assam has Only 2,850 MGNREGA Beneficiaries in 6 Districts
10 Oct 2019
Of these six districts, the highest number (almost 50%) of 1,004 households were in Lakhimpur district, followed by only 654 household beneficiaries in in Nalbari, says a report.
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What lies ahead for Assam?
07 Oct 2019
Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, Deputy Editor at the Wire and author of Assam: The Accord, The Discord, talks about the political and social situation in Assam today and traces the various events and…
Rabindra Nath Sinha
Assam NRC Hits Bengal Garment Business in Puja Season
21 Sep 2019
“People engaged in the garment business are worried as to how they will dispose their unsold stocks, recover investments and clear their debts,” said the state general secretary of the Centre of…
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Stateless in Assam: Voices of the Affected People
19 Sep 2019
A total of 3,30,27,661 persons had applied for inclusion of their names in the updated list of the National Register of Citizens, Assam.
Partha S. Ghosh
NRC in Perspective: What Can't Be Cured, Has to Be Endured
19 Sep 2019
The BJP’s Hindutva push fits well with the Assam movement’s anti-Muslim dimension, but its proposed amendment to the Citizenship Act, which is sympathetic to Hindu immigrants, irks the linguistic…
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NRC and Kashmir: When Political Establishment Starts Terrorising
18 Sep 2019
Is our political establishment changing its character?
Tarique Anwar
Foreigners Tribunals in Assam: Saga of Inherent Gender Bias, Presumption of Non-Citizenship
16 Sep 2019
The number of illegal immigrants is much less that what different constitutional authorities have stated.
Tarique Anwar
People’s Tribunal Indicts Supreme Court Over NRC in Assam
09 Sep 2019
The SC, based on unverified documents, “erroneously” equated migration with external aggression, said the jury.
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UP, Kashmir, Assam: Journalists Are the Target
06 Sep 2019
In recent times, attacks on journalists have intensified in the country as the government has gone all out to impose restrictions on reporting that exposes their failures and misdeeds.
Sagari Chhabra
In My Own Voice: A State of Statelessness
04 Sep 2019
India should not replicate the suffering of stateless Indians abroad.